Handbook of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety,and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages. This handbook provides a summary and assessment of how far that promise has been fulfilled,exploring core concepts in acquisition theory,including notions of the initial state,parameters,triggering theory,the role of competition and frequency,and many others,across a variety of syntactic topics tha